James Anderson

The Bloomberg Harvard program has been training mayors for a decade. But it took until tonight for one of our alumni to make it to the governor’s office.

Congratulations to Georgia’s governor-elect @KeishaBottoms, Class of 2018!

“We’re witnessing the most profound shift in housing federalism since the 1930s.”

So how do we turn local housing innovation into national progress? @Bruce_Katz, Colin Higgins, & A.J. Herrmann explain how — and where @BloombergDotOrg’s work comes in.

thenewlocalism.com/newsletter/how…

There’s an art—and a science—to helping good ideas spread between cities.

Here’s a deep dive into 3 housing breakthroughs, and how we’re helping 30 more cities adapt them to build more homes, faster.

Great piece by @jaredbrey in @GOVERNING:
governing.com/in-the-weeds/c…

From speeding up permits to getting stalled projects moving, we're seeing promising local solutions to address the housing shortage. @MikeBloomberg makes
the case for giving more local governments the funding and expertise to put innovative approaches to work.
housingwire.com/articles/micha…

For much of the 20 years before Covid, 6 in 10 Americans rated the CDC’s job good or excellent. By 2021, just 40% did. It never recovered.

You can blame this administration for gutting the CDC. But the ground was already prepared.

Institutions become dismantleable before they are dismantled. nytimes.com/2026/09/26/hea…